Zip? If Pages is a word processor then its got formatting which will
expand such documents, contrary to plain text documents.
From The Believer. . .
What if it were true?
ancient.ali...@icloud.com
On 8/1/2014 8:48 AM, David Goldfield wrote:
Unless I'm misremembering this, I thought I read that files generated in Pages
are actually the same as .zip files.
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From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com]
On Behalf Of Tim Kilburn
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2014 11:40 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Why are pages documents so large in file size
Hi,
Sort of like an app on the Mac. There are data sets, embedded objects etc all
packaged into one item for you. So, if you go to the Pages document, press
VO-shift-m on it and choose Show Package Contents, you can see what is included
in the document. I'm not a developer or anything but I'm guessing that
packaging things this way better allows for accessing the documents across Mac
and iOS platforms and will make things easier in Yosemite and iOS 8 for opening
file formats without extra conversions.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Aug 1, 2014, at 12:55 AM, Daniel McGee <danielmcgee...@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hi Tim, what do you mean by "a package thing?"
On 1 Aug 2014, at 07:12, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote:
Hi,
Hmmm, that's interesting. Not sure but I don't believe that it really matters
either. The sizes you're speaking of are minuscule. When you talk of files
being in the KB range, there's nothing at all to be concerned about. I tested
like you and had a .DOCX file that I changed into a .Pages file which changed
it from 127 KB to 219 KB. Pages does tend to kind of do a package thing for
it's files and this may be what causes the difference.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Aug 1, 2014, at 12:04 AM, Daniel McGee <danielmcgee...@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hi all, was wondering why when one creates a pages document, why they are so
much larger in file size compared to other doc formats.
To put this into perspective for you, I have created a word document with text edit
called "new books requests.docx" This 1st document, file size was only 4KB
However, when I created it in a pages format just to compare, the size jumped
up to 129KB
Quite a difference Don't you think? Anyway, was just curious why this is so and
is there any possible ways of getting file sizes with the pages format smaller?
Its not a big deal but it seems pretty extreme for just a document format if
you know what I mean. The most I have ever seen with a word document at least,
with in my experience ranges from: 20KB to 30KB possibly 40KB. But certainly
not within the realms of the 3 digit numbers! lol
Thanks all for any feedback with this and remember, its not a big deal but more
out of curiosity.
Daniel
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